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I've even heard of people screen-recording them programming, and then watching later, to have an external view of how they spend their time, because in the moment you can't evaluate very well. Yet people don't regularly do this. There is no market where I can easily pay people to watch me talk, program, choose clothes, etc, and give me feedback.

Anyway. Momentum is real. Don’t discount it. Easiest way to never lose it is never stop shipping, listening to customers, having fun, and ultimately improving every day, little by little.

Keep it going daily, one foot in front of the other. That’s it.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.

A Chilean saying:

“Criticizing a musician is easy, but it is more difficult when you have a guitar in your hand.”

It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.

Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.

This is the fastest way that I'm aware of that's anchored in real known biology to calm oneself down… It's an inhale through the nose, and the it's another inhale on top, and then a long exhale. That's the fastest way to slow your heart down and calm down.

“N years of experience” requirements are unnecessary gatekeeping. Smart people can pick up anything quickly, and diverse perspectives are valuable.

Socialist and nationalist revolutionaries are Latin America’s most successful criminal gangs, augmenting sheer brutality with fanatical ideology. The average person in these countries, however, craves tranquility and opportunity. Revolutionaries are a handful of wolves who make daily life hell, all the while vainly promising a heaven-on-earth that never comes. Unlike ordinary criminal gangs, however, Latin America’s revolutionaries have global legions of defenders and apologists.

Kafka in his Diaries writes that there are two cardinal sins from which all others sins derive: impatience and laziness.

If you can't decide, the answer is No.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

Look around your environment.

Rather than seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention. Each object gently pulls a certain amount of your attention toward it.

Whenever you discard something, the tug of that object is released. You get some attention back.

Remember that the thing that is most likely to be wrong is the thing that you heard most recently, because we've not had the chance to verify it yet.

It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.

The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.